Dylan Brewer of Clearwater pleaded to a lesser charge of criminal mischief above $200 but below $1,000 in addition to one count of reckless driving causing injury to property or a person.

“Do you understand what I mean when I use the word ‘remorse’?” Judge Daliah Weiss asked Dylan Reese Brewer, 19, before granting the plea deal, which critics have called a “sweetheart ...